carn

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
6
Words With Friends
8
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/kɑːn/

Definition of carn

4 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (alt-of, archaic)Archaic form of cairn.
    “The Druid Carns are generally fenced round the bottom, by a circle of stones: these Carns had always on their summits, a large flat stone, on which the Druid fires were lighted […]”
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noun

  1. (alt-of, archaic)Archaic form of cairn.
    “The Druid Carns are generally fenced round the bottom, by a circle of stones: these Carns had always on their summits, a large flat stone, on which the Druid fires were lighted […]”

intj

  1. (Australia, informal)Come on.
    “Slipper hooted. But in a moment another wedging peak was upon us. "Carn, kid. No guts, no glory." "I don't think so," I said. "It's the only way home now."”
  2. (Australia, informal)An exclamation of support or approval, usually for a sporting (football) team.
    “Cries of "Carn the Bunnies" rang out, and the talk was of past glories, present disappointments and future hopes.”
    “Surely there is someone in ABC Television management who has read Bruce Dawe's evocative poem Life Cycle: "When children are born in Victoria/they are wrapped in the club-colours, laid in beribboned cots/having already begun a lifetime's barracking/Carn, they cry, carn … feebly at first."”

name

  1. A surname.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

Adapted from the vernacular pronunciation of c'mon, itself an informal variant of come on. The first uses of the term in its extended sense appear to have been amongst Australian rules football fans in Victoria, with the use later spreading to other states and sports.

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Best play narc 6 points

3-letter words

4 words

2-letter words

3 words

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